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Slack issues
- yla92 3y agohttps://status.slack.com/ https://status.slack.com/ is not updated yet.
- miyuru 3y agoIts been 2 hours and the page still does not show any downtime. Whats the point of having a status page?
- a012 3y agoThe website and app are not accessible (HTTP 503) but their status page is still green :smile:
- floriangosse 3y agoYeah, saw the same. Let's see how long it will take and when they update the status page.
- antupis 3y agoWell status pages are nowadays much worse indicator than HN or other sources because companies just don't update those.
- 4dregress 3y agoYep, its down for me as well.
- 01acheru 3y agoAnother status page that sucks. Slack goes down, people start texting me about it, status page is green, HN informs me that Slack is actually down. Next time I build a status page it will simply be a static HTML with green indicators and some random metrics, looks like it is the industry standard. :facepalm:
- viraptor 3y agoThere are two kinds of status pages. Those that show you red when the service is up (automated) and those that show you green when the service is down (manual and automated) - or some mix of those two. You don't want made up information too, so for the manual one you'll get some delay for the analysis of the situation. Your actions are extremely unlikely to change if the downtime is for less than half an hour. So what exactly do you expect to happen here? (Yes, I got annoyed at a thousandth comment that essentially says the status update is not instantaneous and perfectly reflecting the situation)
- ilyt 3y agoI expect: * not lying * not having to dig out our logs and proofs for SLA reasons on obvious fuckup. > (Yes, I got annoyed at a thousandth comment that essentially says the status update is not instantaneous and perfectly reflecting the situation) It's not about it being minute behind reality, it's about it lying in entirety. Why you have so much problems with understanding that ?
- viraptor 3y agoThere's a bit of time between a delayed status report and lying. If you referred to them historically not reporting anything at all then that's fair, but it wasn't clear from the message. And it's a common comment I see 10min after some service having issues: "the status page is still green" - yes, people are probably still logging in to things and figuring out if the issue actually is internal.
- ilyt 3y agoBut the expectation is that site reports live state. If it is up to person to change it then it as status page is useless, might as well look at reddit whether people are complaining...
- switch007 3y agoIf you accept that status pages are (partially) under the control of PR teams, it makes more sense that they’re useless and a lie.
- m348e912 3y agohttps://downdetector.com/status/slack/ https://downdetector.com/status/slack/ Slack is definitely down even though their status page says otherwise. Incentives matter. If there is no penalty for misrepresenting the current state of an outage, you are going to find that company driven status pages are going to be frequently inaccurate.
- philliphaydon 3y ago[dead]
- rozenmd 3y agoWe noticed about 2 minutes of hard downtime (API and website) on OnlineOrNot: https://slack.onlineornot.com/ https://slack.onlineornot.com/
- zamnos 3y agoIn fact, there's an inverse incentive at play here. Slack is on the hook for missed SLA, so any admission of issue is legally and financially culpable. This means they don't want to admit to an issue until it's impossible to deny there is one.
- Hamuko 3y agoThere is also an incentive to display the proper status, since if you show all green when the service is down, you look dumb. We recently improved our status reporting because our old status system might not accurately indicate if only a part of our service went down, so it might show green even though (some) customers definitely saw very obvious downtime.
- capableweb 3y agoWhen the choice is between temporarily "looking dumb" and permanently loosing a bunch of money because of SLAs, companies like Salesforce usually make the latter choice.
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- spuz 3y agoThe post should probably link to the status page (which shows all systems ok at the moment): https://status.slack.com/ https://status.slack.com/
- MollyRealized 3y ago... or not.
- floriangosse 3y agoIt seems to be back.
- swah 3y agoWorking normally for us.
- codetrotter 3y agoWorks fine for me I think
- petepete 3y agoThere was definitely a 20 minute window where it was down for us. Messages were occasionally getting through but often in the wrong order, and many just failed.
- floriangosse 3y agoYeah, same for me. Most of the messages I tried to send failed and I had to retry sending them at a later point.
- yosito 3y agoFinally! A chance to get some work done, undisturbed!
- rohith2506 3y agoAnd yet here we are commenting on HN ;)
- LtWorf 3y agoplugging my IRC gateway https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc I find that using slack from IRC, and having the option to deprive some people/channels to notify me is very helpful to reduce the amount of distractions.
- onion2k 3y agoBased on the notifications I've been getting all morning, I can say for sure it isn't.
- mastazi 3y agoNot down for me. OP's link takes me to Slack's homepage.
- floriangosse 3y agoI was down at the moment I've posted it. As I wrote in another comment – it's back available for me as well.
- j4nek 3y agoproductivity for adhd people now increase :)
- re-thc 3y agoSlack is just slacking off.
- blitzar 3y agoWorking fine for me. I think you might be holding it wrong.
- floriangosse 3y agoI was down at the moment I've posted it. As I wrote in another comment – it's back available for me as well.
- floriangosse 3y agoFor those who only rely on Slack's status page here are some other indicators (excl. HN): * Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%40SlackStatus https://twitter.com/search?q=%40SlackStatus * Downdetector: https://downdetector.com/status/slack/ https://downdetector.com/status/slack/
- darkerside 3y agoWould a decent status page be an actually intelligent use of blockchain? We could have a global network of computers responsible for determining a consensus on whether a service is truly and actually down or not. It could be captured in an independent ledger, and ideally used as a canonical determination for status pages, SLA disputes, etc.
- luplex 3y agoI think a normal company would be better suited
- Traubenfuchs 3y agoYou do not need a blockchain for this.
- CPLX 3y agoThe year is 2071. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Except for one man armed with an AK-47, and a Honda full of silver. As he stood on the bluff, looking down at the desert spread for miles before him, a man approached, darkly. “Instead of silver bars, have you considered blockchain for this?”
- stevefan1999 3y agowhat if the blockchain itself was in an inconsistent state due to 51% attack (also known as split brain consensus)
- ryanbrunner 3y agoThis is compounded by the fact that there's no objective truth about whether something is down (as evidenced by this thread, outages are often not global or not across the entire service)
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoslack is bitchware. a new term i use these days for software which is forced on employees because they have no other option (hence bitches). other examples of bitchware are microsoft teams, jira etc.
- roofio 3y agoCould it be that they actually serve a valuable purpose? If they didn't exist would you bitch about email being bitchware?
- Rafi993 3y agoWeird I didn't experience any issues today
- terom 3y agoDigging into the status page history reveals a reference to an issue lasting for 7 minutes, caused by a "minor technical change" that was rolled back. [1] Still claims 100% uptime for May. https://status.slack.com/2023-05-17 https://status.slack.com/2023-05-17
- Traubenfuchs 3y agoYou are wrong, their status page clearly says > Uptime for the current quarter: > 100%